It has been said that Imam entered the holy Iraqi city of Najaf and spent several years in exile there. Iraqi people had looked at Imam as a source of hope not only for the Iranian but for the entire Muslim Ummah.
The Imam confronted all threats and turned all of them into an opportunity. He got busy in delivering lectures and lessons at the seminaries and boosted contacts with all activists from Islamic movements from across the globe.
The people within the close circle of Imam say not only the Iranian nation was considering Imam who could relieve them from the US-led Western backed regime of Shah. But the Iraqi people had also started to look at Imam as a great glimpse of hope.
Extracted from a series of memoirs about Imam Khomeini